Sentence examples for a majority preference from inspiring English sources

Based on our pilot survey data, there was a majority preference for home-based, solo interventions, with walking being the most preferred activity [ 13].

Rather than refusing to countenance the rise of political Islam, as sometimes occurred in the past, democratic governments should recognize that political Islam may represent a majority preference, Human Rights Watch said.

Absent an account of the normative significance of the fact of occupancy, Plebiscitary Theories do not make a convincing case that majority preference plus satisfaction of the State Viability Proviso imply the right to independent statehood.

For the next Delphi round, the original statement was provided along with an alternate version to gauge the majority preference.

"The majority preference is for South Sudan," said Benjamin Marial, minister of information for the southern government and a member of the steering committee, which is working on the name of the country along with other issues.

(Philpott, 1995) Plebiscitary Theories typically add another necessary condition, beyond majority preference (in the region in question) for secession: Both the seceding unit and the remainder state must be able adequately to perform the basic functions that justify or legitimize states in the first place.

IRV will better ensure that the winners of district elections reflect majority preference within their district.

Triple-wise value-restriction suffices for transitive majority preferences (for a simple proof of Sen's theorem, see Elsholtz and List 2005).

She seems to be saying that protecting minority rights is the Supreme Court's job description, but also that a civil rights claim doesn't automatically trump majority preferences.

O'Keefe's formula for pinpointing averageness is as follows: find statistics that reflect majority preferences and apply them to a given population, winnowing the pool until only one candidate remains — a perfect match.

If no one candidate gained a majority of first-preference votes, second preferences of the candidate who came last on the first ballot would be redistributed until someone reached the 50% threshold.